HC Deb 20 July 1943 vol 391 cc700-1W
Mr. Pritt

asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that, in a regiment of which he has been informed, men undergoing an intensive course of training have been ordered to scrape all the paint off the brasses of the guns and to keep the brasses well polished; whether he is aware that the work of scraping off the paint wasted three days of the training period; and whether, as the polished brass tends to assist the enemy, he will put a stop to this behaviour?

Sir J. Grigg

On the general Question I would refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave him on 18th March of this year. I find it difficult to believe that it took three days to remove the paint from these brasses but inquiries are being made into this.